Other:
- Eva Dykes - pioneering African-American female scholar, who broke through barriers by earning a Doctorate degree
- Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain - SDA pastor and his devout SDA wife who were wrongly accused of murdering their baby Azaria after a dingo snatched and killed her. Strong religious prejudice in their community helped lead to a wrongful conviction in what became one of Australia's most famous crime cases: the Dingo Trial of 1981-82. Elaine Hudson and John Hamblin starred as the couple in the 1983 TV movie "Who Killed Baby Azaria?" Miranda Otto and Craig McLachlan played the couple in the 2004 miniseries "Through My Eyes." Meryl Streep and Sam Neill starred as the couple in the 1988 movie "A Cry in the Dark."
In addition to the individuals listed above, some people who known within the SDA community, specifically because of their missionary efforts or other contributions to Seventh-day Adventism, include Hudson Taylor, John Tay (Pitcairn), Elsa Luukkanen (Finland), Luther Warren and Henry Fenner (SDA youth organization), Charles and Mary Andrews (student missionaries),
Other names that have been submitted by readers of this website, but which we have not finished doing additional research and verification for:
Dawnn Lewis - actress
Malik Taylor ("Phife") - rap singer; group: Tribe Called Quest (lapsed)
John Davis - rap singer; group: Tribe Called Quest (converted to Islam)
Kim Fields - actress, "Facts of Life", "Living Single" (lapsed)
John Leguizamo - actor
Chilli - from pop group
A.C. Green - former Phoenix Suns basketball player
Clarence Thomas - U.S. Supreme Court justice
Bernie Casey - professional football player who became a film actor
Jonathan Slocumb - comedian best known for his frequent appearances on The Steve Harvey Show
Fred Hammond - musician
Lola Falana - singer, dancer, actress
Fred "Rerun" Berry - actor
Al Jarreau - singer
Busta Rhymes - rapper
Dick Rutan - pilot
Muhammad Ali (when he was still Cassius Clay) - boxer
Roy Rogers - actor
Dale Evans - actress
Alan Wiggins - noted Major League Baseball Player with the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles. Was a member of the Padres 1984 World Series Team. Still holds Padre's single-season stolen base record with 70 steals (reportedly raised SDA)
Gene Conley - dual-sports figure of the 1950s. Played simultaneously with both the Boston Red Soxs as a Pitcher, and Basketball for the Boston Celtics
Oliver Nelson - noted African-American Jazz, Film, and TV composer. Wrote theme for TV's Six Million Dollar Man
Dr. Frank Jobe - acclaimed sports surgeon with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and most noted for his "Tommy John Surgery" which has saved the careers of numerous athletes
Rod Perry - actor best known for his major supporting role as "Sergeant David 'Deacon' Kay" on the TV series "S.W.A.T." (1975-1976)
Jonathan Jackson - actor, singer with band Enation
Musical Groups: Isley Brothers, and Black Sabbath
Interviews with Seventh-day Adventists, published in Dialogue
College and University Dialogue is a publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. According to the publication's official webpage, it is "an international journal of faith, thought, and action published by the Committee on Adventist Ministry to College and University Students (AMiCUS) in cooperation with the 13 world divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church." This journal regularly publishes brief interviews with Seventh-day Adventists. An index to these interviews, ranging in time from 1994 through 2003, can be found here: http://dialogue.adventist.org/indexes/profiles.htm
The individuals interviewed in this Dialogue series are listed below, along with descriptions of who they are as taken from the article title. Although none of these individuals are "famous" in the sense that they are well known by the general public, they are all accomplished Seventh-day Adventists.
Milton S. Afonso: Philanthropist in Brazil
Verna Alva: Psychiatrist in Peru
Mario H. Ochoa: Executive Vice President of ADRA International
Nathan Greene: Illustrator
Ljiljana (Lilo) Ljubisic: world-class athlete
Sir James Carlisle: Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda
Barry C. Black: chaplain in the U.S. Navy
Leona Glidden Running: linguist and scholar
Eardell Jenner Rashford: judge in New York City
Carlos Puyol Buil: Spanish pastor, scholar, and administrator
Ruy Vieira: creationist in Brazil
Grace Adeoye: university lecturer and researcher from Nigeria
Manuel Escorcio: South African international singer
Jon Johanson: record-breaking aviator from Australia
Linda Hyder Ferry: physician
Barbara Reynolds: Education Program Officer at UNICEF
Ben Carson: pediatric neurosurgeon
Grace Emori: Epidemiologist
Birgid Faber: Orthodontist in Germany
Raymond Romand: neurobiologist in France
Harrington Fitz Henry: engineer-evangelist in Jamaica
Ethel Nelson: pathologist and writer
Lars Justinen: illustrator and artist
Ghanem Fargo: businessman in Iraq
Beverly Wesner-Hoehn: musician
Gloria Diokno: university lecturer and researcher from the Philippines
Floyd Murdoch: birdwatcher
Phil MacKay: painter of wildlife in Australia
Sientje Mewengkang: congresswoman in Indonesia
Michael A. Comberiate: rocket scientist
Mary Grace Gellekanao: unique concert pianist
Alois Kinder: businessman in Austria
John Ap: urban and tourism planner
Gwendolyn Winston Foster: Philadelphia's Health and Fitness Czar
David Pendleton: in the Hawaii House of Representatives
Kay Kuzma: an Adventist with a passion for family values
Ebenezer Chambi: physician, health educator, and community leader
Phetsile Kholekile Dlamini: Swaziland Minister for Health and Social Welfare
Elfred Lee: Artist in Mexico
Alexei Sergeev: Art Historian in Russia
Mario Veloso: poet from Chile
Heber Pintos: illustrator from Uruguay
Marilyn C. Savedra: nurse educator and researcher
Nery Cruz: artist in Puerto Rico
Mary Atieno Ang'awa: judge in Kenya's High Court
Elizabeth Ostring: family physician in New Zealand
Rachel Nyirabu: Wife of Tanzania's Ambassador to the U.S.A
Marilyn Fargo: specialist in conciliation
Bertha Saveniers: sculptor in Belgium
Francisco de Araujo: conductor, producer, and artistic director
Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse: musician with an up-tempo vision for Adventist education
Victor Issa: sculptor
James Graves: Supreme Court judge in Mississippi
Ingrid Klamberg: Sex Counselor in Sweden
Siriporn Tantipoonwinai: educational leader in Thailand
Kim Gangte: member of parliament in India
Joan Coggin: international health-care ambassador
Pik-Yee Kan: family physician in Singapore
Yoshinori Namihira: optical fiber research engineer in Japan
Maria Lee: hotel manager in China
- Eva Dykes - pioneering African-American female scholar, who broke through barriers by earning a Doctorate degree
- Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain - SDA pastor and his devout SDA wife who were wrongly accused of murdering their baby Azaria after a dingo snatched and killed her. Strong religious prejudice in their community helped lead to a wrongful conviction in what became one of Australia's most famous crime cases: the Dingo Trial of 1981-82. Elaine Hudson and John Hamblin starred as the couple in the 1983 TV movie "Who Killed Baby Azaria?" Miranda Otto and Craig McLachlan played the couple in the 2004 miniseries "Through My Eyes." Meryl Streep and Sam Neill starred as the couple in the 1988 movie "A Cry in the Dark."
In addition to the individuals listed above, some people who known within the SDA community, specifically because of their missionary efforts or other contributions to Seventh-day Adventism, include Hudson Taylor, John Tay (Pitcairn), Elsa Luukkanen (Finland), Luther Warren and Henry Fenner (SDA youth organization), Charles and Mary Andrews (student missionaries),
Other names that have been submitted by readers of this website, but which we have not finished doing additional research and verification for:
Dawnn Lewis - actress
Malik Taylor ("Phife") - rap singer; group: Tribe Called Quest (lapsed)
John Davis - rap singer; group: Tribe Called Quest (converted to Islam)
Kim Fields - actress, "Facts of Life", "Living Single" (lapsed)
John Leguizamo - actor
Chilli - from pop group
A.C. Green - former Phoenix Suns basketball player
Clarence Thomas - U.S. Supreme Court justice
Bernie Casey - professional football player who became a film actor
Jonathan Slocumb - comedian best known for his frequent appearances on The Steve Harvey Show
Fred Hammond - musician
Lola Falana - singer, dancer, actress
Fred "Rerun" Berry - actor
Al Jarreau - singer
Busta Rhymes - rapper
Dick Rutan - pilot
Muhammad Ali (when he was still Cassius Clay) - boxer
Roy Rogers - actor
Dale Evans - actress
Alan Wiggins - noted Major League Baseball Player with the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles. Was a member of the Padres 1984 World Series Team. Still holds Padre's single-season stolen base record with 70 steals (reportedly raised SDA)
Gene Conley - dual-sports figure of the 1950s. Played simultaneously with both the Boston Red Soxs as a Pitcher, and Basketball for the Boston Celtics
Oliver Nelson - noted African-American Jazz, Film, and TV composer. Wrote theme for TV's Six Million Dollar Man
Dr. Frank Jobe - acclaimed sports surgeon with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and most noted for his "Tommy John Surgery" which has saved the careers of numerous athletes
Rod Perry - actor best known for his major supporting role as "Sergeant David 'Deacon' Kay" on the TV series "S.W.A.T." (1975-1976)
Jonathan Jackson - actor, singer with band Enation
Musical Groups: Isley Brothers, and Black Sabbath
Interviews with Seventh-day Adventists, published in Dialogue
College and University Dialogue is a publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. According to the publication's official webpage, it is "an international journal of faith, thought, and action published by the Committee on Adventist Ministry to College and University Students (AMiCUS) in cooperation with the 13 world divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church." This journal regularly publishes brief interviews with Seventh-day Adventists. An index to these interviews, ranging in time from 1994 through 2003, can be found here: http://dialogue.adventist.org/indexes/profiles.htm
The individuals interviewed in this Dialogue series are listed below, along with descriptions of who they are as taken from the article title. Although none of these individuals are "famous" in the sense that they are well known by the general public, they are all accomplished Seventh-day Adventists.
Milton S. Afonso: Philanthropist in Brazil
Verna Alva: Psychiatrist in Peru
Mario H. Ochoa: Executive Vice President of ADRA International
Nathan Greene: Illustrator
Ljiljana (Lilo) Ljubisic: world-class athlete
Sir James Carlisle: Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda
Barry C. Black: chaplain in the U.S. Navy
Leona Glidden Running: linguist and scholar
Eardell Jenner Rashford: judge in New York City
Carlos Puyol Buil: Spanish pastor, scholar, and administrator
Ruy Vieira: creationist in Brazil
Grace Adeoye: university lecturer and researcher from Nigeria
Manuel Escorcio: South African international singer
Jon Johanson: record-breaking aviator from Australia
Linda Hyder Ferry: physician
Barbara Reynolds: Education Program Officer at UNICEF
Ben Carson: pediatric neurosurgeon
Grace Emori: Epidemiologist
Birgid Faber: Orthodontist in Germany
Raymond Romand: neurobiologist in France
Harrington Fitz Henry: engineer-evangelist in Jamaica
Ethel Nelson: pathologist and writer
Lars Justinen: illustrator and artist
Ghanem Fargo: businessman in Iraq
Beverly Wesner-Hoehn: musician
Gloria Diokno: university lecturer and researcher from the Philippines
Floyd Murdoch: birdwatcher
Phil MacKay: painter of wildlife in Australia
Sientje Mewengkang: congresswoman in Indonesia
Michael A. Comberiate: rocket scientist
Mary Grace Gellekanao: unique concert pianist
Alois Kinder: businessman in Austria
John Ap: urban and tourism planner
Gwendolyn Winston Foster: Philadelphia's Health and Fitness Czar
David Pendleton: in the Hawaii House of Representatives
Kay Kuzma: an Adventist with a passion for family values
Ebenezer Chambi: physician, health educator, and community leader
Phetsile Kholekile Dlamini: Swaziland Minister for Health and Social Welfare
Elfred Lee: Artist in Mexico
Alexei Sergeev: Art Historian in Russia
Mario Veloso: poet from Chile
Heber Pintos: illustrator from Uruguay
Marilyn C. Savedra: nurse educator and researcher
Nery Cruz: artist in Puerto Rico
Mary Atieno Ang'awa: judge in Kenya's High Court
Elizabeth Ostring: family physician in New Zealand
Rachel Nyirabu: Wife of Tanzania's Ambassador to the U.S.A
Marilyn Fargo: specialist in conciliation
Bertha Saveniers: sculptor in Belgium
Francisco de Araujo: conductor, producer, and artistic director
Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse: musician with an up-tempo vision for Adventist education
Victor Issa: sculptor
James Graves: Supreme Court judge in Mississippi
Ingrid Klamberg: Sex Counselor in Sweden
Siriporn Tantipoonwinai: educational leader in Thailand
Kim Gangte: member of parliament in India
Joan Coggin: international health-care ambassador
Pik-Yee Kan: family physician in Singapore
Yoshinori Namihira: optical fiber research engineer in Japan
Maria Lee: hotel manager in China
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